Early stage precipitation kinetics in an Al-Zn-Mg and an Al-Zn-Mg-Ti alloy
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Thin foils of high purity aluminium and an Al-Al2O3 SAP type of alloy were oxidised in a specially designed hot stage specimen chamber in an electron microscope. Below 450 C, amorphous aluminium oxide formed on the foil surface and was first detectable at foil edges, holes, and pits. Islands of aluminium then nucleated in this amorphous oxide. The aluminium islands displayed either a lateral growth with eventual coalescence with other islands, or a reoxidation process which caused the islands to disappear. The aluminium island formation was determined to be related to the presence of the electron beam. A mechanism based upon electron charging due to the electron beam was proposed to explain the nucleation, growth, coalescence, disappearance, and geometry of the aluminium islands.
Particle-metal matrix interface strength of dispersion strengthened Ni alloys, developing direct tensile stress measurement method
Electron microscope-thin film microprobe techniques in biomaterial studies of chemical segregation, species diffusion and small particle analysis